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ALTC2011, University of Leeds06/09/2011 slide 1
JISC's support for learning and teaching in a changing educational environment
Malcolm Read
ALTC2011, University of Leeds
Contents
• JISC Review
• Relevant JISC activities
• The open academic practice
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In 1906…
The global economy faced a second consecutive downturn based on market speculation and short selling.
London was the scene of riots, linked to the Brown Dog affair.
The first cohort of students began to graduate from the University of Leeds
Foundation of the worlds first distance learning college, the University of Wisconsin.
Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906
Open Spaces Act 1906
Historian AJP Taylor was born (in Lancashire)
“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”
AJP Taylor, “The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine and Cobbett” (1957), p14
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The University of Leeds
“For the sons of local families, it was one of the first colleges for students of all faiths and backgrounds. The College supported the values of the recently established University College, London and Owens College in Manchester. These had been set up to challenge the exclusivity of Oxford and Cambridge universities, which were predominantly for the Anglican aristocracy and gentry.”
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The University of Leeds Act, 1904Open Government LicenseCrown Copyright
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Review of JISC
Chaired by Sir Alan Wilson, reported in January 2011.
Recommends JISC becomes a separate legal entity with simplified and rationalised structure to meet new HE environment.
Three consultancies underway:
Analysis of governance models, HECG & CHEMS. Jan 2012
Review of JISC-funded services, Curtis & Cartwright. Dec 2011
Review of Janet, Capita Consulting. Dec 2011
Aim to establish new organisation 3Q12 but probably not fully functional until late 2013..
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A new JISC?
As the HE and FE sectors are changing, JISC has to change too. We need to stay relevant to the needs of institutions undergoing their most profound change since the dawn of mass HE.
We will develop:
– a new, more agile, model for JISC
– services and advice that can meet the new needs of institutions
– and major programmes of work, starting in Autumn 2011
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OERAssessment
Research Data
eContentCourse Data
Digital Literacy
Digging in to data
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Course Data Programme
Course Data: Making the most of Course Informationhttp://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2011/07/coursedata.aspx
Stage 1: Review and Plan £10,000 7thSept- Nov11
Supporting the production of an implementation plan outlining changes required to improve course data flows within the institution and produce feeds for external agencies.
Stage 2: Implementation £40-80,000 Jan 12- Mar 13
Programme designed to get significant number of engaged institutions to demonstrate effectively the huge potential of organising and presenting course information in a standardised way.
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Transformations programme
The JISC Transformations Programme is a new programme which will help institutions to use JISC outputs and services to:
a. enhance their student experience;
b. improve the efficiency of their business;
c. improve engagement with business and community partners
The first call in this area closes on 15 September – details on the JISC website under Funding Opportunities.
Successful institutions will be given a small amount of funding to:
Use JISC (or non-JISC) resources to improve strategic planning or processes in these areas
Provide feedback on how useable they are and lessons learned
Advise on where improvements can be made
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Resource Discovery Programme
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A solution?
Follow our progress
HE libraries, museums and archives hold rich collections for researchers and teachers. Discovering what is held
throughout the UK can be a frustrating experience
JISC and partners have established the Discovery programme to address this problem by taking an open
approach to metadata and by using this metadata to build tools that make it easier to discover and use the resources
spread around the UK
You can follow progress at:
http://discovery.ac.uk#ukdiscovery
The problem
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eContent programme
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- Since 2004: nearly £30m and almost 80 projects- Investment in high quality digital content for research, teaching and learning through:
- digitisation; enriching existing collections; clustering content; user generated content/community engagement; developing skills and strategies
- New eContent programme, £5.4m Nov 2011:a) Digitisation for Open Educational Resources b) Large scale digitisation c) Clustering content
-See JISC funded content and download the JISC content widget at www.jisc-content.ac.uk
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UKOER phase 3 (Academy/JISC programme)
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OER Themes
Open materials for accredited courses
Institutional Change Academy
Wider Engagement: international, student, subject areas.
Programme support, evaluation & synthesis, comms, guidance
Programme management
Rapid Innovation
Call
Hack Challenge
Research Studies: Online learning, open practice,
technical issues
PG Cert Change Academy
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JISC’s open practice
JISC has always been committed to the open availability of the work we have commissioned and carried out:
we have always required that our funded projects share their findings and resources with *at least* the UK HE sector, free of charge (this is now expanding to a general expectation of openness).
we have almost never charged for our materials, briefings, events (and even when we were required to, we charged only a nominal amount and offered free alternatives)
we have always endeavoured to participate and nurture emerging communities, rather than act as gatekeepers.
we have worked openly with partners worldwide.
even where we work with fee-charging organisations (eg publishers) we have negotiated for the widest possible availability and use of materials.
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JISC are funding work to…
look in detail at academic (and institutional) processes and practice
support and develop emerging business models
make information public - content, data, processes, research... Open
derive value from public information
Supporting Openness (OER, OA/open data, open source development , or "open academic practice")
Openness addresses all of these threads and is a component of all of our recent funded work. JISC is committed to openness - it is at the core of what we do and who we are (though we are clear it is not the answer to every problem, it is the answer to many problems).
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Mark Twain in 1906
“It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble”
Mark Twain, 1906
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New York Times Archive, 1906Fair Use claimed.
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105 years later…
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Portrait of Samuel Clements (Mark Twain)Sourced from SCA partners the Welcome TrustCC-BY-NC
Due to a limited $50,000 microfilm release of the text in 2002, Mark Twain’s biography is now in copyright until 2047, 137 years after his death.
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Hargreaves Review of Copyright
Review recommendations to modernise UK IP laws published in May. HMG accepts them in full.UK IPO to launch consultation on implementation from mid-Oct onwards.
Recommendations include: Digital Copyright Exchange; a digital market place where licences in copyright content can be readily
bought and sold. Copyright exceptions covering limited private copying (format shifting). Copyright exceptions to allow parody. Copyright exceptions for library archiving (digital preservation). Copyright exceptions for search and analysis techniques known as 'text and data mining'. Establishing licensing and clearance procedures for orphan works (material with unknown copyright
owners). Collecting Societies should be required by law to adopt codes of practice, approved by the IPO and the
UK competition authorities. Evidence should drive future IP policy and not ‘lobbynomics’. Strengthened the Intellectual Property Office's role. JISC’s future plans include: Developing the evidence base on data and text mining and orphan works in the coming months. Producing advice and guidance on the potential implications of the recommendations for colleges and
universities. Contributing towards HMG policy formation through active and empirical evidence based research.06/09/2011 slide 16
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To conclude
Whatever the funding model, whatever the governance model, we are public institutions, housing public thinkers and dedicated to the education of society for the needs of society.
Academics always have been, and always will be, public intellectuals. We're emerging from a 50 year blip in if you take a long view over the past 1000 years.
Academics have always taught in public, researched in public, and engaged with each other and with wider issues in public spaces
The connected, open world is not an aberration, it's a return to our roots.
And JISC wants to be a part of this.
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And finally…
“In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer”
AJP Taylor. Quoted in Peter Vansittart, Voices 1870-1914, introduction (1984).
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© HEFCE 2011
The Higher Education Funding Council for England, on behalf of JISC, permits reuse
of this presentation and its contents under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK England & Wales Licence.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk
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